What are the consequences of remote work and always-on-connectivity on people’s everyday lives? How do these shape social institutions such as the home, family, household and friendship, as well as broader processes of social change?
ReWorkChange aims to answer these questions by delivering a comparative ethnographic study of the societal consequences of remote work in eight different countries: Belgium, China, India, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Romania, and Turkey.
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12/10/2026
On 29 September 2026 Elisabetta Costa joined the plenary session on 'Post-societies in the EU and beyond' as a panel member, discussing what happens if technology allows us to work less—or eventually makes some forms of human labour unnecessary.
09/10/2026
On 29 September 2026, Elisabetta Costa presented the project during the interactive event in Brussels on 'Post-work futures in the EU and Beyond: Grounding Digital Transformation in Lived Experience." This event brought together participants from the EU policy bubble, practising social scientists and citizens.
EASA 2026, held at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań from 21-24 July under the theme "Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World", brought together 2,043 delegates across an extensive programme of panels, roundtables, laboratories, films, and plenaries. For ReWorkChange, the conference became an important moment of collective visibility and, more importantly, comparative reflection. All eight members of our team presented work emerging from field sites in Shanghai, Istanbul, Amster...
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05/03/2026
The ReWorkChange workshop, held on 20–21 January at the University of Antwerp, marked the official launch of the ERC-funded project Remote Work and Social Change. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, media studies, and related fields, the workshop created a space for sustained reflection on how remote and hybrid work are transforming everyday life across different social and geographical contexts.
The opening session, led by Elisabetta Costa, set the tone by asking a central...
